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Nah I have the power cosmic I'll be fine
I never meant to suggest Nintendo IS doomed. I love my WiiU despite severval issues I have with Nintendo.
at making enough Amiibo. Up production, I want Lucina.
Come on Nintendo
For fuck's sake
Wal Mart game but fuzzy
Touch fuzzy get dizzy.
or do we just not buy games in the summer
hyrule warriors is ridiculously fun. sheik is a god damn monster
Yoshi's New Island sold slightly better in NA than EU and, while summer sales typically aren't as high as other times of the year, I don't think that's unique to NA either. So to answer your question, I think Nintendo just hates us.
Maybe bullshit
But damn it'd be cool if that DS/3DS stuff on Wii U was real
Yeah I really want to like princess form Zelda more but Shiek is just too much damn fun to play
Actually...
As of like a month ago, Nintendo first party games on the Wiiu have 29 million units.
This is ignoring digital because of course no one lists that.
The ps4 has sold 84m units of software total. (I'd only just top selling games but most barely break 1m. So that would be incredibly skewed.)
Now again this is ignoring digital. The ps4 probably does pretty good digital business.
Regardless, doing more then 30% of the sales with less then half the install base (and all first party to boot. So more of the pie.) Isn't something I'd call failure by any reasonable metric.
I mean looking at the GameCube the entire broke 1m list is only at like 57m or something.
The wiiu is still capable of beating that given the same amount of time.
I don't think they're going to sell a $150-$200 controller
I bought a wiiu day one with the idea that of course it will be able to SuperGameBoy the ds because look at it it was born for this
And splatoon would be the optimal 2 WiiU gamepad game because there's supposed to be that Total GamePad FPS Limit and splatoon just uses it for the minimap
Which is all too bad that there is no way it is true as it does not outline any of the jokes/memes/puns Nintendo will be doing during the presentation
Not even one that doubled as a 3DS?
I'd buy the shit out of that
The top screen being the TV and the bottom screen being the controller would actually be really awful
Isn't this exactly how they do it with the DS games already on the Wii U eShop?
Game sales aren't console sales.
But, more importantly; Nintendo's goal is not "sell an amount of games/consoles similar to what we did on Gamecube." Businesses are predicated on growth; the Wii U stumbling across the finish line with numbers comparable to a system from almost fifteen years ago would be a staggering failure. Not only does it demonstrate a lack of growth in absolute terms - when you consider how the overall market for games has grown in that period, Nintendo's even further behind.
As a business, you're not trying to get to where you were in 2001, you're trying to outpace that AND outpace the market's net growth over that time period. The Wii U isn't doing that.
Definitely bullshit. The gamepad+ thing barely makes sense and they can't release Lucas for Smash Bros. right after the presentation, because by then he'll have been out for a few days already.
Probably! Its likely awful there too.
If you think playing Mario Kart 7 on the TV would be severely hampered by the track map being on the Game Pad
Well
I don't know what to say to you, that's insane
I would love to play Pokemon Y on the TV and the menus being on the Game Pad wouldn't hurt it one bit because why would I ever look at both screens anyways
Bummer!
Looking a both on a handheld can be done without.moving your eyes. It would be a lot worse to.flick up and down from screen to controller.
Plus the next GC HD game is melee
they might have trouble communicating that it is both a wii u accessory and basically a standalone handheld but well, they've been down that road many times before
Games as an absolute have increased. Console sales and software have markedly declined.
So no, if they can meet or exceed the sales of a peak time in console game sales in the current climate where most companies are struggling in console sales? That's a win, boss. Nothing is in a vacuum.
But there's also the problem of games like Ninja Gaiden and Brain Age where you hold the DS sideways
But hey, Nintendo were the ones that started the conversation of DS on the Wii U